A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

What is there that forgiveness cannot achieve?

There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

I don't like begging money from producers.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.